Po.et, a blockchain startup that permits content material creators to create time-stamped titles for his or her written, visible and audio paintings, has introduced Jarrod Dicker, who has held positions on the Washington Post, Time Inc. and Huffington Post, as its new CEO.

It could also be the easiest fit. Po.et desires to modify the best way content material creators organize their paintings and Dicker has a historical past of ushering conventional information retailers into the virtual age, so they don’t seem to be only reliant on promoting and subscriptions.

Dicker left his place as VP of innovation and industrial technique on the Washington Post to sign up for Po.et.

“At Po.et, we are constructing what this industry needs — a new environment where creators are paid for what they can do instead of what is required of them by an old and broken paradigm,” he wrote in a weblog submit saying the transfer. He defined that he left his former place on the Post as a result of “I believe in that future.”

Dicker’s position at Po.et can be to supervise technique and engineering and product construction at the Po.et platform. He will even oversee Frost, an API and set of construction equipment that Po.et introduced closing week for content material creators and bloggers.

In a observation, Dicker mentioned he plans to leverage his enjoy “throughout media, schooling and company America to carry this platform as the usual for virtual content material possession rights.”

After becoming a member of the Washington Post, Dicker helped shape the RED group, which stands for analysis, experimentation and construction. Prior to that he labored at RebelMouse, an organization based via the core Huffington Post generation group, the place he helped construct the corporate’s long run content material control machine. He additionally labored at Time Inc., taking the lead on rising merchandise, and at Huffington Post, originating local promoting.

“Jarrod’s unique vision enables him to drive creative, scalable products and evangelize innovation,” mentioned Tyler Evans, board member of the Po.et Foundation in a observation. “We look forward to his enthusiasm for media and track record of building cutting-edge technology for publishers to Po.et.”

Po.et. supplies equipment to publishers and content material creators who need to automate the licensing procedure with out involving 3rd events. All content material licensing phrases are enforced via sensible contracts. Contract main points, as neatly as possession rights and different descriptions are then hashed and cryptographically registered at the Bitcoin blockchain.

Po.et, which held a token sale on August eight, 2017, now boasts a web based group of greater than 40,000 builders and creators on social media platforms, such as Telegram, Reddit and Twitter.

In addition to his position as CEO at Po.et, Dicker sits at the board of advisors for Rutgers University Center for Innovation Education and MOGUL Inc., a generation platform that permits ladies to percentage concepts and get entry to content material in accordance with their private pursuits. Dicker additionally helps a Carnegie Mellon University program at the price of social promoting in publishing.